While working for the US Forest Service Pat was a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Science award for collaborative research with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission on the reintroduction of American marten (Martes americana) in northern Wisconsin.  His research interests focus on understanding the interactions between animal behavior (specifically movement patterns) and landscape patterns of habitat resulting from human activity (e.g., forest management or fragmentation).  Typically this work focuses on mammalian models systems although he has some experience working with birds as well.  He relies on iterative combinations of field experiments to define the rules animals use for movement and individually based spatially explicit simulation models to investigate the implications of those rules in circumstances beyond those in which data were collected and thus to motivate additional field work on critical aspects of the interactions between animals and the landscapes in which they live.  Thematically Pat’s research focuses on behavioral ecology and landscape ecology in the context of questions about the conservation of species of concern and his work has implications for both theoretical considerations (e.g. understanding animal movement rules and their implications) and also has important applied repercussions for conservation efforts.